Person
Ernest Liebold
Henry Ford’s private secretary; general manager of the Dearborn Independent.
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Ran the business side of the The Dearborn Independent and gathered material for “The International Jew” series.
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worked at
- The Dearborn Independent 1918 general manager Scholarship & press 1
- Ford Motor Company private secretary Scholarship & press 2
involved in
- The Dearborn Independent’s “International Jew” campaign gathered material Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1918 Ernest Liebold worked at The Dearborn Independent
Proof 2 sources
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Henry Ford and the Jews: the story Dearborn didn’t want told, Bridge Michigan, 4 Feb 2019.
Scholarship & press
After paying $1,000 for the Independent (about $18,000 in today’s dollars), Ford named his closest aide, Ernest Liebold, the newspaper’s general manager.
With Ford’s money, Liebold organized a network of spies, many with government intelligence backgrounds, to snoop around outposts of Jewish life in America
a general consensus has emerged that Ford, not a skilled writer, talked over ideas with Liebold, who ordered Pipp and Cameron to transform them into stories.
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The International Jew: 1920s Antisemitism Revived Online, Anti-Defamation League, 30 Jan 2017.
Scholarship & press
Ernest Liebold, Henry Ford Sr.'s personal secretary, began to collect antisemitic material.
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- Add 55 stories, each checked against its sources96e92fe6
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